Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stella Adler

Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings.

Stefan Zweig

Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.

Stefan Zweig

We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the second when (as Stendhal has described it) the internal inflorescence, already steeped in every kind of fluid, condenses and crystallizes—a magical second, like the moment of generation, and like that moment concealed in the warm interior of the individual life, invisible, untouchable, beyond the reach of feeling, a secret experienced alone. No algebra of the mind can calculate it, no alchemy of premonition divine it, and it can seldom perceive itself.

Sonia Sotomayor

I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.

Sophie Kinsella

You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.

Thomas Hardy

He wished she knew his impressions, but he would as soon as thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibles of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.

Thomas B. Macaulay

All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings.

Tim Cahill

Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.

Thomas Lennon

I need to be spontaneous sometimes. Sometimes I find that the little detail or nuance that you add to it that's based on what's happening at the time that's not very rehearsed often ends up feeling like the funniest thing.

Thomas Jefferson

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

Thomas Francis Meagher

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.

Thom Gunn

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

Raymond Williams

The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.

Victoria Azarenka

That intensity, that feeling of the battle, heat of the moment: personally, that's what I live for.

Will Self

The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that most appeals to us.

Will Self

What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the other supplies facts, and the British are traditionally empiricists so they/we have a resistance to theory and to theoreticians playing too prominent a role in public life.

Wes Borland

I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.

Warren Farrell

Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I've been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I'm doing now.

W. Eugene Smith

What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?

Zadie Smith

He traced the genealogy of the feeling.

Zora Neale Hurston

I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.

Zora Neale Hurston

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

Zack Snyder

It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.

Zach Galifianakis

I've never been in love... But I imagine it's similar to the feeling you get when you see your waiter arriving with your food

Yuichiro Miura

I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well.

William Hazlitt

There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.

William S. Burroughs

I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host.

Woody Harrelson

I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw; it's a pretty dreadful feeling.

Woodrow Wilson

I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.

Woodrow Wilson

Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

Woody Allen

I've become the person I've always hated, but I'm happier.

William Wordsworth

Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.

William Saroyan

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.